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Sentir fait penser. On en convient assez aisément; on convient moins que penser fasse sentir; mais cela n'est guère moins vrai.
nicolas chamfort— Maximes et Pensées, #377Feeling creates thought, men willingly agree; but they will not so willingly agree that thought creates feeling, though this is scarcely less true.Maxims and Considerations, #377
Je ne conçois guère (mon cerveau serait-il un miroir ensorcelé?) un type de Beauté où il n'y ait du Malheur. Appuyé sur d'autres diraient: obsédé par ces idées, on conçoit qu'il me serait difficile de en pas conclure que le plus parfait type de Beauté virile est Satan, à la manière de Milton.
Charles Baudelaire— I can scarcely conceive (would my brain be a spellbound mirror?) a type of beauty without unhappiness. Supported by — others would say, obsessed by — these notions, one may conceive it would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, — as rendered by Milton.XVI
Il n'y a guère de gens qui ne soient honteux de s'être aimés, quand ils ne s'aiment plus.
françois de la rochefoucauld— There are very few people who are not ashamed to be loved when they no longer do.Variant translation: There are very few people who are not ashamed to have loved when they no longer do.Maxim 71.
Il n'y a guère d'homme assez habile pour connaître tout le mal qu'il fait.
françois de la rochefoucauld— Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.Maxim 269.
Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens, que ceux qui sont de notre avis.
françois de la rochefoucauld— We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.Maxim 347. Compare: "'That was excellently observed,' say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken." Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects.
Sa réputation s’affermira toujours, parce qu’on ne le lit guère.
voltaire— His reputation will go on increasing because scarcely anyone reads him."Dante" (1765).
Les gens heureux ne se corrigent guère; ils croient toujours avoir raison quand la fortune soutient leur mauvaise conduite.
françois de la rochefoucauld— Fortunate people seldom mend their ways, for when good luck crowns their misdeeds with success they think it is because they are right.Maxim 227.
